A lot of people have been complaining there is no authenticator for Android devices. Blizzard has finally answered that complaint and released a free download for the authenticator through the Android Market! As with the iPhone version it provides you a one-time password for when you login to your account on either the account management or in-game.

Blizzard, it appears, is buffing out their roster of downloadable in-game pets with some real world plush pets.

The Blizzard store has announced plans to sell two new plush companion pets—a baby Wind Rider and a baby Gryphon. When you buy one from the Blizzard Store, you also receive a code which unlocks an in-game equivalent.

Please note that while the pets are sporting their faction logos, they are not restricted by faction. :)

Since the launch of the Completion Tracker (beta) at the end of December, we've been hard at work fixing bugs, making tweaks, and adding new features—both to the Completion Tracker and to the Profiler in general. We thought we'd take a moment to recap some of the additions and changes we've made!

Remember, if you're ever curious, you can see our latest additions and developments on the What's New page!

Blizzard just launched a new page on their StarCraft II website that contains a preview of the new Battle.net integrated service for all Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft.

In this preview you will find some of the new features and developmental screenshots of the new service—which includes competitive arenas, cross-connectivity between Blizzard games and a way to post mods and community created content. There is also a video interview with Greg Canessa, Project Director for Battle.net, where he covers all of this and more.

As this pertains to World of Warcraft players as we will most likely see most of the previewed features integrated into the game in future content patches.

After each region's maintenance this week, raids will no longer lose attempts on wipes in Normal mode for Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. There will still be limited attempts in Heroic mode.

We will continue to monitor developments in Icecrown Citadel in the future, especially since the Heroic difficulty has been unlocked by a significant number of raids.

Blizzard recently decided the weapon drops from The Lich King (Icecrown) needed to be re-optimized in order to measure up to the quality you would expect from The Lich King. Both the heroic and normal versions will have traded certain stats for others—for example, Royal Scepter of Terenas II is having its MP5 replaced with haste rating (yay!).

The blue post with the full list of changes follows:

After reviewing several items available from the Lich King encounter, we've decided to re-optimise certain weapons that didn't meet with our expectations and the quality that the Lich King expects. The weapons listed below, both their Normal and Heroic versions, will now better represent their respective roles and present more intriguing options to players.

Remember, this event has been set up to change almost completely from last year—there's a LOT of new content, and most of it isn't public knowledge yet. We've taken the time to dissect the information we have and try and construct in advance what you may be seeing this year—and as the event goes live, we'll be updating the guide in real time!

So come check out the guide, and leave your thoughts and feedback in the comments here!

Well now's your chance! We're looking for a few good programmers to join our staff here at Wowhead, and you could be one of them! We're looking for entry-level web developers to come and join the Wowhead staff.

In the latest edition of the Blizzard Insider newsletter, which has just been released, Blizzard interviews Scott "Daelo" Mercer, World of Warcraft's Lead Encounter Designer, and Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street, World of Warcraft's Lead Systems Designer, about everyone's favorite bad guy... Arthas.

WoW.com is reporting that one of their readers has stumbled upon dates at the Anaheim Convention Center's calendar schedule that are listed as BlizzCon. The dates are listed as October 22nd and 23rd, 2010.

So I know I've been spamming you with blogs today, but I couldn't let this one go by: The weekly quests for Icecrown Citadel are now available!

If you're looking to find them all in one convenient list, you can just use the Sack of Frosty Treasures item page! Scroll down to the Reward from section to see the complete list of quests. :)

For those of you who are wondering, the raid weeklies don't have a centralized NPC who gives them. The NPCs who give the quest actually spawn inside the raid instance itself. Only one NPC will spawn, and it's a different spawn for each quest. It's my understanding that they're pretty hard to miss, though, so you shouldn't have any trouble finding yours. :)